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Directory         1.    Thomas Verjans, Disappearances and Linguistic Changes Message 1: Disappearances and Linguistic Changes Date: 04-Oct-2010 From: Thomas Verjans <thomasverjansfree.fr> Subject: Disappearances and Linguistic Changes E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Disappearances and Linguistic Changes Date: 17-Jun-2011 - 18-Jun-2011 Location: Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France Contact Person: Thomas Verjans Meeting Email: thomasverjansfree.fr Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Call Deadline: 07-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: EA 4509 « Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire » - Paris-Sorbonne « GReLISC » (EA 4178 - Centre Pluridisciplinaire Textes et Cultures) - Université de Bourgogne COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL MEETING DISPARITIONS ET CHANGEMENTS LINGUISTIQUES DISAPPEARANCES AND LINGUISTIC CHANGES 17 ET 18 JUIN 2011 This conference aims to study the phenomenon of disappearances as linguistic changes in the field of historical linguistics. In terms of axes, we will focus on, in a non-exclusive way, on the following areas: 1.Case studies of extinction The first axis will focus on case studies, conducted within the above typology and aiming for a better understanding of this type of change. These studies, best carried out on many typologically distinct languages, should therefore allow a deeper theoretical understanding of the phenomena of disappearance, in concordance with certain aspects of the second axis. 2.Studies of the notion of disappearance The second aspect concerns the very phenomenon of disappearance. Is it, as is often supposed, a mere consequence of another fact of change, a result, or is it a type of change in and of itself? Disappearance may indeed be conceived of in two ways: a resultative conception - the most widely held view, taking the disappearance as the consequence of another change - and a processual conception - that disappearance could be a process of change, in other words, independent of other processes.In this perspective, conceiving of disappearance as a process also implies a study of its relationship with the phenomena of archaisms, likely to constitute a (first) stage, or on the contrary, to mark a limit indicating failure. More generally, this amounts to questioning the way in which the disappearance process occurs, the different stages of its development, its gradience. This, it seems, is a prerequisite for its integration into the typologies of linguistic change. 3.Theoretical and epistemological issues This last area opens three sets of questions. -The first covers the historiography of the concept of disappearance, as already mentioned, for example, by M. Bréal who spoke of the 'extinction of useless forms' (1897) or A. Meillet, about the disappearance of the preterite (1909). -The second set of questions concerns the status of disappearances in the general modeling of linguistic change. These are indeed most often designed to be linked to an original innovation. The principle of a disappearance conceived of as process seems incompatible with such a premise. -Finally, a third set of issues involves questioning its epistemological status. Indeed, to the extent where we can say, following E. Coseriu, that linguistic change has its own ontological status, then, as it can be considered a process, disappearance inherits a similar status and must be able to provide the knowledge that one can have of language and the activity to which it corresponds. In addition, its integration as a process has consequences on the theoretical model to which we resort in order to explain it. As such, the loss could be, for example, faced with the notion of 'survival scenario' developed by J. Nichols (2003). Procedure de Soumisison/Submission Procedure Lieu / Localization : Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France Date : 17-18 juin 2011 Communications : 30min. + 10 min. de discussion Les propositions de communications (500 mots, format .doc, .rtf, .pdf) devront être adressées par voie électronique sous forme anonyme à c.badiou.monferranfree.fr; thomasverjansfree.fr avant le 7 janvier 2011, le corps du message devant contenir le nom de l'auteur, son affiliation, son adresse électronique et le titre de la communication proposée. Elles seront évaluées anonymement et la notification d'acceptation sera envoyée le 20 février 2011. Proposals (500 words, .doc, .rtf, .pdf) should be submitted anonymously by mail at c.badiou.monferranfree.fr; thomasverjansfree.fr, before the 7th January. Name, affiliation, email address and title of the proposals should be included in the mail. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent out from 20th February 2011. Langues/languages: français et anglais/French and English Les communications devraient faire l'objet d'une publication/Communications should be published. Comité d'organisation/Organization comittee: Claire Badiou-Monferran (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : c.badiou.monferranfree.fr Thomas Verjans (Université de Bourgogne) : thomasverjansfree.fr Comité scientifique/Scientific comittee: Annie Bertin (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre), Sonia Branca (Paris 3), Joëlle Ducos (Paris-Sorbonne), Benjamin Fagard (CNRS-Lattice), Jean-Marie Fournier (Paris 3), Julie Glikman (Lattice, Paris Ouest Nanterre), Philippe Monneret (Université de Bourgogne), Gilles Siouffi (Montpellier 3). 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